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Saturday, 5 July 2008

Moving Heaven and Earth

From the Early Church to the Simpsons, family falling out is an integral part of being human, being family. Small disputes are part of a much bigger context. In the week of Canada Day, pondering all the strife and dissension around the place, I remembered The Big Snit. Lucy and I have been laughing about it, off and on, for about 20 years. It’s one of the greatest stories ever told — pure joy, with sawing for teens, shaking eyes like a shaking rock ’n roll band, and a happy ending... Well, pull my lips off. It looks like a bunch of people. Is there some kind of parade on or something?

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Child of God by adoption and grace, husband of Lucy, father of five, jumped-up vicar (Area Bishop of Buckingham).
Born Edinburgh. Deacon 1979, Priest 1980, Bishop 2003. Cambridge MA, Oxford DPhil — ‘I am a doctor, but not the kind that helps people.’ I trained for ordained ministry at Wycliffe Hall. I have worked in various C of E contexts, urban and suburban, as well as in prison.